Commentary Israel is the world’s poster boy for mass vaccination and for good reason. It was first off the mark to obtain the vaccines necessary to fully vaccinate the country against the novel coronavirus, it was ruthlessly efficient in rolling out its vaccination programs, and now it’s first off the mark in inoculating everyone over 12 years of age with a third booster shot. Israel’s early determination to fully vaccinate its population—when two shots were defined as fully vaccinated—led to it being heralded as a huge success story. Its daily COVID-19 cases prior to mass vaccinations, which hovered around 10,000 per day early in the year and swamping its hospitals, plummeted to single digits by May, after the population was largely vaccinated. But suddenly, the coronavirus cases are back, and with a vengeance, once again reaching 10,000 a day and giving Israel one of the highest rates of infection in …
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